Fukushima - 1.3 million Americans set to die thanks to Obama cover-up of radiation plume

[Peter Lemkin]

Fukushima has been looming over all of us for 2.5 years now, and the media/government have been doing their best to ignore it. It may end up poisoning the entire Pacific region before it's done.

TEPCO, the Japanese Govt. are NOT releasing the necessary information - and most other governments are trying to downplay the situation. The full extent of the damage and radiation levels known are NOT being told to the World public. We do know some things, though, and they are NOT good. We know that several of the reactors breached their containment vessels and suffered at least partial melt-downs [either of these would have released massive amounts of radiation - and will continue to until the estimated 40-45 years it will take to entomb the reactors. The cooling system was destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami and has only partly been repaired on some of the reactors. Reactors keep overheating and highly radioactive water keeps getting into the atmosphere, ground, groundwater and ocean. [i.e. they don't even begin to have the reactors under control]. The situation certainly is degrading - not stabilizing. As worker who work near the reactors are only allowed 10-20 minutes at a time - in containment suits with lead foil in them, the radiation leakage near the reactors must be very high - which given the damage is not a surprise, at all. Shortly after one of the reactor vessels exploded, I remember a radiation expert estimating that Fukashima had already released many times more radiation than Chernobyl. To be fair, the type of radiation released, and its distribution both locally and Worldwide will determine the end result in additional deaths. Radiation, unless VERY intense and VERY close by, doesn't cause immediate deaths, but adds to the risk of cancers and birth defects and some other biological and environmental consequences. The workers at the plant and those that live in the local area are most at risk of shorter lives. I'll try to find an authoritative prediction of additional person-years lost due to the excess radiation, worldwide.